Shrub to 0.4 m. Branchlets many, erect, 4-angled and 4-sulcate, sometimes viscid. Cataphylls dark brown or black. Flowers single or in fascicles of up to 4; pedicels 0.8-1 mm long. Sepals broadly deltoid, 0.8-1 mm long. Petals broadly ovate or angular-ovate, 2-2.4 mm long, white. Stamens inserted below margin of disc; filaments 0.4-0.5 mm long; anthers 0.5 mm long. Disc slightly fleshy, 1.5-2 mm diam., crenate opposite each filament. Ovary more than half immersed in disc, 2-locular; style c. 0.2 mm long; stigma obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule 2-lobed, broadest above middle, 2-valved, 8-9 mm long, 7-8 mm wide, 1-or 2-seeded. Seeds narrowly ellipsoidal, 4-4.2 mm long, 1.8-2 mm wide, 1/3 immersed in aril; aril nearly as long as seed.
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